Democrat Ilhan Omar removed from House's Foreign Affairs Committee | USA TODAY

The Republican-led House removed Democrat Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee after her past statements related to Israel.

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Omar said on the House floor Thursday that the vote to remove her is about more than silencing her voice.

Republican leaders have threatened to take action against Omar over a number of controversial statements she's made since she came to Capitol Hill in 2019.

But the GOP calls got louder last year when the Democrat-led House stripped Republicans Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., of committee assignments for menacing social media posts. Both GOP lawmakers have been reinstated to committees this Congress.

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